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The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
G. B. Burgin
I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts.
G. C. Lichtenberg
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
G. C. Lichtenberg
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
G. C. Lichtenberg
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
G. C. Lichtenberg
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. Lichtenberg
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
G. C. Lichtenberg
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does.
G. C. Lichtenberg
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G. C. Lichtenberg
To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.
G. C. Lichtenberg
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
G. C. Lichtenberg
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
G. Gordon Liddy
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
G. H. Hardy
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. K. Chesterton
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
G. K. Chesterton
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
G. K. Chesterton
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution
G. K. Chesterton
The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.
G. K. Chesterton
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
G. K. Chesterton
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
G. K. Chesterton
I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
G. K. Chesterton
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
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